In the next place, you have the remedy prescribed in two words, Repent and be converted. Repent, that denotes a change in the heart: and to be converted, an alteration in the outward conversation, [Greek or Hebrew], Howsoever it be generally received that ⟨p. 255⟩[Greek or Hebrew] signifieth only true and godly sorrow, and [Greek or Hebrew], that imperfect and unsound grief which is upon hypocrites, yet this is not universally true, for [Greek or Hebrew], is applied to true repentance, Mat. 21.19. & 32. and [Greek or Hebrew] to an outward repentance merely, Mat. 11.21. The other word is [Greek or Hebrew], which is to be understood reciprocally, Turn your selves, or be turned. This exhortation doth not suppose free-will in us, it only denoteth our duty, not our ability. Neither is Grotius his assertion better then Semipelagianisme, when he compareth the will of a man to the mother, and grace to the father, so that as children are named after the father, and not the mother: thus good actions are denominated from grace, not free-will: for in our conversion free-will is neither a total or partial cause preoperant or cooperant, but the passive subject recipient of that Vim gratiae vorticordiam, as Austin called it, the heart-changing power of grace. This duty of repentance is urged from the profitable consequent. Piscator calls it effectu utili, the effect of conversion, which is, that your sins may be blotted out. It is not an inference of causality, but of consequence. Blotting out, is (as you heard) from merchants that expunge their debts, or the Scribe that raceth out those letters which ought not to be in the paper, or the Painter that defaceth those lineaments, which should not be in the Picture.
In the next place, you have the remedy prescribed in two words, Repent and be converted. Repent, that denotes a change in the heart: and to be converted, an alteration in the outward conversation, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Howsoever it be generally received that ⟨p. 255⟩〈non-Latin alphabet〉 signifieth only true and godly sorrow, and 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, that imperfect and unsound grief which is upon hypocrites, yet this is not universally true, for 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, is applied to true repentance, Mat. 21.19. & 32. and 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 to an outward repentance meeerly, Mat. 11.21. The other word is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, which is to be understood reciprocally, Turn your selves, or be turned. This exhortation doth not suppose free-will in us, it only denoteth our duty, not our ability. Neither is Grotius his assertion better then Semipelagianisme, when he compareth the will of a man to the mother, and grace to the father, so that as children are named after the father, and not the mother: thus good actions are denominated from grace, not free-will: for in our conversion free-will is neither a totall or partiall cause preoperant or cooperant, but the passive subject recipient of that Vim gratiae vorticordiam, as Austin called it, the heart-changing power of grace. This duty of repentance is urged from the profitable consequent. Piscator cals it effectu utili, the effect of conversion, which is, that your sins may be blotted out. It is not an inference of causality, but of consequence. Blotting out, is (as you heard) from merchants that expunge their debts, or the Scribe that raceth out those letters which ought not to be in the paper, or the Painter that defaceth those lineaments, which should not be in the Picture.
